Local residents have reacted with fury to reports that BAA Ferrovial is to fast track a 3rd runway at Heathrow (1). Continue reading “3rd runway at Heathrow to be fastracked. Local residents pledge the ‘mother of all environmental battles’”

Campaign group HACAN ClearSkies has called for a cut in short haul flights at Heathrow to improve air quality in London. Continue reading “Cut in Short Haul Fights at Heathrow Needed to Help Livingstone Meet his Air Pollution Targets, Says Campaign Group”

Campaign group HACAN ClearSkies has praised the local authority organisation 2M (1) for publishing the likely flight paths to and from Heathrow if a third runway goes ahead (2) Continue reading “Flight Path Maps: Local authorities put the Department for Transport to shame”

On December 14th, the Department published its ‘Progress Report’ on its 2003 Aviation White Paper. It confirmed the expansionist plans of the White Paper. Continue reading “Latest News at a Glance”

Progress Report: 720 flights using Heathrow each year if a 3rd runway is built
HACAN members plan further direct action training Continue reading “Let Battle Commence!”

Campaigners promise ‘mother of all battles.

The Government is expected to confirm its desire to see a 3rd runway built at Heathrow when it issues its ‘Progress Report’ on its 2003 Aviation White Paper this week (1). Continue reading “Progress Report on Aviation White Paper Set to Confirm Government’s Desire for 3rd Runway at Heathrow”

The number of flights using Heathrow could be cut by around 100,000 a year if there were no flights to and from the destinations where there already is a good rail alternative, according to research released today (1) by campaign group HACAN ClearSkies. Continue reading “Short-Haul Flights: Clogging up Heathrow’s Runways”

Heathrow campaigners said it would be a ‘climate crime’ to expand Heathrow in the light off the new report (1) by Sir Nicholas Stern calling on the Government to take immediate action to tackle climate change. The widely-leaked report, commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Continue reading “It would be a ‘climate crime’ to expand Heathrow in light of new report, say campaigners”

A report launched today by the University of Oxford presents new evidence,
which shows to what extent the Government’s policies on aviation fly in the
face of policies on climate change. It says that by 2050, carbon dioxide
emissions Continue reading “Are the UK’s aviation and climate change policies impossible bed-fellows?”